Alien: Isolation

Why We're Excited For The Next Alien Game

Like a nest of xenomorph eggs being eradicated, fans of the Aliens franchise have been burned. Alien: Colonial Marines failed spectacularly to live up to expectations, leaving gamers with shaky trust in developers' ability to transpose the onscreen tension into a worthwhile game. Creative Assembly is up next for the Aliens franchise with Alien: Isolation. It taps into the atmospheric horror of Ridley Scott's Alien more than the tense action of James Cameron's Aliens. Game Informer editor Jeff Cork and I discuss our hands-on impressions of being hunted by a murderous xenomorph and how we emerged with restored faith in the franchise.

Jeff Cork and I reflect on the stress of being hunted by an angry alien, the gorgeous next-gen visuals, and the potential of Creative Assembly's new game.

For more on Alien: Isolation, read Jeff Cork's detailed account of his time playing the horror title.

Not really a fan of these horror games that leave the player basically defenseless ( Amnesia, Outlast). I am however an Alien fan, as I own multiple versions of all 4 alien movies, AVP and Prometheus. I'll pick it up just to own it, hopefully I'll enjoy playing it too.

This seems like an awesome game, but I'll probably wait a few years to play it; namely, until there's a price drop or two on the PS4, and until I've played through the massive back catalogue of Wii and PS3 games I have but haven't gotten through,yet.

COVER STORY ON THIS GAME!
Although, Colonial Marines got a cover story, and look how that ended up. For the record, I don't think that game was horrible, just incredibly generic, shoddy, and poorly written. If it had come out two generations ago (PS2, Xbox, GC), I think it would have fared much better. Bad story aside.

Never been invested in this game or franchise. Sure I enjoyed the older movies (AvP sucks balls) but never encountered a game that stuck with me. Much like Superman... so not really expecting anything really but if its good then I will play it. But def not a 1st day buy.